Bloomingdale’s, Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, and Sak’s Fifth Avenue holiday windows for the kid in all of us…New York Christmas windows are famous for the animated displays which put put a smile on all our faces, and not just the the young children hoisted up onto their parent’s shoulder.

Bergdorf Goodman and Louis Vuitton holiday windows…In what are probably one of the most visually stunning New York Christmas windows, Bergdorf Goodman creates artful displays that recreate the feel of the dioramas of the Natural History Museum.

“Scrap the luxury orange or turquoise signature shopping bag and make hers a modest plain Jane…We are totally behind carrying your own eco bag to the grocery store, but this shopping bag switch is on a whole other level!The Daily Beast reports, “What Rich People Don’t Want You to Know About Their Spending” is that although the cash cows are more than happy to drop a mother lode to support their luxury indulgences, they simply don’t want to be caught red-handed walking out of tony shops flaunting the armloads of arm candy. Have they not heard of FedEx?”

Nothing says oh la la luxury more than Hermes Paris…Richard Nahem, the Paris Insider has brought s the gorgeous Paris Christmas windows at Galeries Lafayette and Printemps and now the very short list of luxury and absolute elegance with the Paris Christmas windows from Hermes, Paris.

Karl Lagerfeld dresses up Printemps and Galeries Lafayette gets a dose of shocking pink…So much gorgeousness, so little time. What’s a chic recessionista to do?No need to fly off to Paris, when we can bring the best of the Christmas holiday windows to you.Kaiser Karl Lagerfeld was tapped by Paris retail giant Printemps to create some very magical holiday French chic windows. Lagerfeld concocted a whimsical animated marionette theme with a marionette named, guess what, Coco! Coco the marionette dresses in a Chanel quilted suit and strolls through a garden brimming with mystical flowers and plants. Hannah Macgibbon of Chloe, architects Jakob and Macfarlane, and furniture designer Herve Van Straeten add their special holiday window touch with the theme of earth, air, and fire.A Valentine’s Day palette of shocking pink and red dominates the lush and lovely Paris holiday windows at Galeries Lafayette with super cute pink animated marching rabbits in red velvet coats. The burst of brilliant holiday color stands alongside their fashion windows which have an ode to Alice in Wonderland them.

“Bid on Some Amazing Stuff and Support a Vet on Veterans Day…My old (in an ageless where does time fly kinda way) colleague from my newswire days, Lee Woodruff, one the brightest and funniest pr babes to ever pitch a lipstick, wants to share something on far more serious note than the right shade of gloss for the holiday season: “Support Our Troopsa